About

What Is PubliJournal?

A journal management system installed on your own server that brings a journal's whole workflow, from submission to publication and from archive to indexing, into one place.

Six Stages of a Manuscript

The stages run in order. Editors see the list in this sequence; authors follow their own manuscript's progress from their own panel in real time.

  1. 1

    Initial Check

    The manuscript arrives and the editor checks it for formal compliance. If something is missing the author is asked to fix it; if it is out of scope the process ends here.

    New submissionFormal revisionWithdrawn
  2. 2

    Peer Review

    A section editor is assigned and invitations go out. Those who accept get a deadline and a review form. Under blind review the file is anonymised and neither side sees the other.

    Awaiting reviewerInvitation sentUnder review
  3. 3

    Revision

    Reports are collected and the author is asked to revise. The revision can go back to the same reviewer or straight to a decision. Every round is recorded.

    Revision requestedRevision receivedRe-review
  4. 4

    Decision and Publication

    The editor decides and an accepted manuscript joins the publication queue. Where two reviewers disagree, a third can be appointed.

    Awaiting decisionAcceptedPublished
  5. 5

    Typesetting and Pre-press

    The manuscript text is edited in the panel, its PDF is produced with the chosen layout template and sent to the author for proofreading. Once corrections are applied the manuscript is placed in a volume and issue.

    TypesettingIn proofreadingReady to printAssigned to issue
  6. 6

    Identifiers and Indexing

    The DOI is registered, the compliance check flags any remaining metadata gaps, and the archive becomes ready for harvesting.

    DOI registrationCompliance checkDOAJ export
Publication model

Publish in Issues, or Without Waiting for One

Not every journal works to the same rhythm. Both models are supported; the model is chosen at installation and can be changed later.

Issue-based

An article joins an issue, the issue is published

The classic model. An accepted manuscript is assigned to an issue and goes live when that issue is complete.

Page numbering
Continuous within a volume: the second issue starts where the first ended. The next value is suggested, never forced.
Early view
You can publish an article before its issue is full. It appears as early view and settles into the issue once that is closed.
Supplements and special issues
Numbered separately so they do not disturb the pagination of regular issues.
Continuous

An article is published when it is ready

The manuscript reaches readers the day it is accepted, without waiting for an issue. It joins the open issue, which closes on its own at year end.

Article numbers instead of pages
An article number replaces the page range, and the citation line is generated accordingly.
Speed to publication
The wait between acceptance and publication disappears. For authors this is the most visible difference.
Archive structure
Articles are still gathered under volumes and issues, so the archive stays orderly and indexes harvest it as before.

Which one suits you? If you can publish issues on schedule and are preparing an index application, the issue-based model presents a more familiar picture. If you would rather not wait for articles to accumulate, continuous publication keeps both authors and readers waiting less. We look at your journal's rhythm during the setup conversation and decide together.

Indexing

The Technical Side of Index Compliance Is Not Left to You

Most of what DOAJ, national indexes and abstracting services ask for is structural rather than scholarly: metadata fields, site architecture, a documented and datable review process. That is software work, and it is where applications usually fail. The system takes that part on and puts the rest in front of you.

yourjournal.com/panel/index_check.php
Index Compliance CheckVolume 4 · Issue 2 · 8 articles scanned
6 missing
  • Abstract and keywords in article language8 / 8
  • English title, abstract and keywords8 / 8
  • Author ORCID identifiers19 / 19 authors
  • Submission and acceptance dates8 / 8
  • Conflict of interest statement6 / 8, 2 missing
  • Author contribution statement5 / 8, 3 missing
  • Page range7 / 8, 1 missing
  • DOI8 / 8
You see the gaps before you apply, not after a rejection.

Handled by the system

Comes with the installation.

  • An independent journal website carrying the masthead data indexes ask for: full title, title in other languages, abbreviation, ISSN, address, language, frequency, publisher, boards, contact
  • Title, abstract and keywords in the article language and in English
  • Articles classified by type and shown as such in the table of contents
  • Submission and acceptance dates on the article page, automatic because the workflow is recorded
  • Author affiliation, contact and ORCID, with real identifier validation
  • Research and publication ethics, author contribution, conflict of interest, support and funding, AI use and acknowledgements: separate fields with a completeness check, printed under the same headings on the article page and in the PDF
  • Ethics committee statement: committee, date, decision number and document when approval was obtained; a standard sentence when it is not required. The submission cannot be completed until the question is answered
  • Continuous pagination within a volume; separate numbering for supplements
  • A complete peer review record: reports, reviewer identities, affiliations, dates, revision rounds
  • At least two reviewers, with a third when they disagree
  • Different-institution and conflict checks at assignment
  • Citation line plus APA / MLA / Chicago / Harvard strings
  • OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and DOAJ article XML export

The system prompts, you write

Structure ready, content yours.

  • Nine policy pages: aims and scope, author guidelines, ethics, peer review process, open access and copyright, fees, archiving, editorial board, plagiarism. Pages exist and missing ones are flagged; you write the text
  • Separate ethics sections for authors, reviewers and editors
  • Section and language editors: roles exist, you appoint the people
  • Editorial and advisory boards: the page is ready, the board is yours
  • ISSN registration: obtained from your national centre; the system records and validates it
  • Uploads to an index's own portal: files are produced here, the upload is done by the editor
  • Plagiarism software: a similarity report is a required file; you choose the tool

Entirely yours

Where software should not interfere.

  • Publishing on schedule, at the frequency you announce
  • Competence of editors and board members
  • Scholarly depth of referee reports
  • Quality of articles and authors, institutional diversity
  • Share of original research articles
  • Language, copy-editing and typesetting standards
  • The application itself and the correspondence around it

To be clear: indexing decisions belong to the index, and they rest heavily on content, boards and the quality of peer review. PubliJournal does not guarantee acceptance. It solves the part of the criteria software can solve and shows you the rest. For journals in Türkiye the same structure covers the TR Dizin preconditions, which are among the most detailed national criteria published; the current text is at trdizin.gov.tr.